FBI Arrests Police Officers in New Haven Suburb

The FBI arrested four police officers in East Haven, Conn., Tuesday on civil rights charges that include threatening and assaulting members of the New Haven suburb’s Latino community.

The arrests of Sgt. John Miller and Officers David Cari, Dennis Spaulding and Jason Zullo come nearly three years after the U.S. Justice Department began investigating the East Haven Police Department for allegedly targeting and mistreating Latino residents.

On Tuesday, the arrested officers were accused of conspiring from 2007 to 2011 “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate various members of the East Haven community,” of going after undocumented immigrants who were less likely to raise objections of abuse, and “harassing and intimidating fellow officers and their own police commissioners… to prevent scrutiny of their misconduct,” the Justice Department said.